In August, a team of mathematicians posted a paper claiming to solve a major problem in algebraic geometry — using entirely alien techniques. It instantly captivated the field, stoking excitement in ...

Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A ...

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For the better part of half a decade, Russian cosmonauts have been searching for the small leaks like a proverbial needle in ...

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READING, Pa. – Reading City Council is considering the idea of granting residential handicapped spaces for specifically identified residents. The current city ordinance allows anyone with a doctor's ...

In a hyper-digital, hyper-optimized world, many people move between just two places: home and work. Everything else has been quietly stripped away by convenience culture, remote jobs, and algorithmic ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

READING, Pa. – During its Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night, Reading City Council heard a report from the administration that said providing personalized handicapped spaces may not be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere rich with carbon and helium, which is unexpected on this hot planet ...

Ms. Kinder is a writer and an instructor at Yale Summer Session. Since 2014, I’ve led a study-abroad writing course for Yale University in Auvillar, a village in the southwest of France. For many of ...

Readers respond to a librarian who wrote that listening to a book qualifies as reading. To the Editor: Re “Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading,” by Brian Bannon (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 23): ...